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20 years of Google Scholar

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412 points thepuppet33r | 4 comments | 18 Nov 24 18:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.836s | source
1. 2dvisio ◴[19 Nov 24 08:56 UTC] No.42181302[source]▶
20 years and still no API. In my past as an academic I've tried several times to build systems to depend on Scholar and was always taken aback by the lack of an API. I get it was not to be swallowed whole by other publishers etc, but that has reduced the potential of the product.
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2. asdff ◴[19 Nov 24 17:38 UTC] No.42186093[source]▶
What field are you in? If you are in life sciences the pubmed api (entrez direct) is pretty good.
3. mkatx ◴[19 Nov 24 21:14 UTC] No.42188154[source]▶
You mean public, documented API's? Everything is/has an API.
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4. juthen ◴[20 Nov 24 08:06 UTC] No.42191722[source]▶
They temp ban by IP as fast or faster as any other google service.